DBMS > 4D vs. BigObject vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. BigObject vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

A global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Key-value store

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Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
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Score	0.32
Rank	#283	Overall
	#40	Key-value stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.4d.com

bigobject.io

www.cloudflare.com/developer-platform/workers-kv

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.bigobject.io

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

4D, Inc

BigObject, Inc.

Cloudflare

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

1984

2015

2018

2013

Current release

v20, April 2023

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Lua

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

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